The Digital Civilizations Interviews

Level two: a “glocal” detection/action platform

The means necessary for advanced detection, emergency response and reconstruction are often beyond the reach of local populations. Yet it is important that these populations do not feel dispossessed of their own problems and, more importantly still, of the responses to those problems. This process would be organized around three central concerns:

• Advanced detection: this would combine the availability of the most advanced technology to risk areas, the sharing of information (such as seismography) garnered at detection centres, and the building of “human collector” networks entrusted with locally detecting early signs, educating populations about the measures that should be taken, and even introducing preventative measures.
• «The place of the glocal market»: this would aim to organize assistance and reconstruction in a way that would systematically turn to local responders first. This presupposes that inventories will have been drawn up, work specifications defined and published, and response teams closest to the area created and trained.
• «Medialert»: this would aim to inform the media and other relevant actors, merging all channels of information and ensuring that the information broadcast is both pertinent and coherent. Effort should first be made to capitalise on global experience, given the diversity of scenarios and local populations in question.